[ale] Can't find LVM volumes on USB drive

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 17:13:54 EST 2012


On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>wrote:

> On 11/30/2012 11:18 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
>> The problem is that this arrangement looks like a default
>> rhel/centos/fedora drive with sde1 is boot, sde2 is swap and sde3 is LVM
>> with / and home. If you just create a single LV inside sde3 you may be able
>> to extract most of the stuff up to the boundary that no longer exists. Ugh.
>>
> Ugh is right.  I now have a very clean, empty, lvm logical partition.
>
> Oh well, nothing really lost except time.  And perhaps a few stray
> electrons.


There's a way to save/backup the LVM setup. Probably a good idea to
automate that stuff in some places I know i have LVM running (like most
everywhere).

>
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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